Mgutierrez33
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How-do all? So I haven't been particularly active in the forums lately... apologies, as I have not really had much kit to work with and haven't felt as though I could adequately provide for the experience on here. I return with a possible issue I am having:
My old mATX rig once again has life breathed into it for my brother by getting it an i5-3570K processor. Decent processor and it undervolts reasonably well, however I noticed something a little odd whilst adjusting the voltages. While in the desktop environment and stress testing under Prime95, I notice that CPU-Z is registering Vcore that is about .02 higher than I have manually set things in the BIOS. I have set Turbo off and set LLC to max, and everything else appears to be working properly. I was thinking this may have had something to do with SpeedStep, but that only modulates clock speeds based on sleep states. Is this just a querk of this/these particular boards or is there something else I should be looking for? I swept over the BIOS settings pretty thoroughly and can't really think of anything else that may account for the slight INCREASE in volts (see: VERY slight) at load. Any insight would be nice. Also yes, I have read over the gigabyte Z77 tuning guide for these processors and have otherwise followed all of the directions there just in case there was something that I missed during my AMD tuning sessions and during my hard learned mistake of screwing up my old 2600K.
My old mATX rig once again has life breathed into it for my brother by getting it an i5-3570K processor. Decent processor and it undervolts reasonably well, however I noticed something a little odd whilst adjusting the voltages. While in the desktop environment and stress testing under Prime95, I notice that CPU-Z is registering Vcore that is about .02 higher than I have manually set things in the BIOS. I have set Turbo off and set LLC to max, and everything else appears to be working properly. I was thinking this may have had something to do with SpeedStep, but that only modulates clock speeds based on sleep states. Is this just a querk of this/these particular boards or is there something else I should be looking for? I swept over the BIOS settings pretty thoroughly and can't really think of anything else that may account for the slight INCREASE in volts (see: VERY slight) at load. Any insight would be nice. Also yes, I have read over the gigabyte Z77 tuning guide for these processors and have otherwise followed all of the directions there just in case there was something that I missed during my AMD tuning sessions and during my hard learned mistake of screwing up my old 2600K.
